Translator: Sigita Šimkutė-Macanko Reviewer: Denise RQ
You will now hear four movements
from the cycle
"On the Shores of the Cosmic Ocean" by Poul Ruders.
One voice in the cosmic fugue.
"Probably, all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth
have descended from some primordial form,
into which life was first breathed."
Charles Darwin, from the "Origin of Species".
(Accordion music)
(Applause)
"The Backbone of the Night", Kung bushmen,
The Kalahari Desert, Botswana;
their name for the Milky Way.
(Accordion music)
(Applause)
Stardust.
"We are, as I like to say, star stuff."
Carl Sagan from "The Most Precious Thing", "The Demon-Haunted World".
(Accordion music)
(Applause)
A dream catcher.
A dream catcher traps bad dreams
and lets the good dreams filter down to the sleeper.
(Accordion music)
(Applause)